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deficits continue far into the future. the president also offered no real entitlement reform and no plan to grow america's stagnant economy. president obama is truly budgeting from behind. what's interesting about this budget, though, is it's not just how late it was. it's that it -- it isn't just what he says about what that says about the lack of leadership from the white house. what's also very interesting is what this budget says about the coming train wreck of the president's own health care law. the train wreck succombing not just because the -- the train wreck is coming not just because the health care law is unaffordable for families, it is unaffordable for taxpayers of this country. it fails to slow down washington spending, but it is also dishonest about how much of a budget buster his health care law will be. in fact, the administration has used a lot of smoke and mirrors to try to hide the true cost of the health care law. here's how the associated press put it. they ran an article titled "tracking obama's heal
deficits continue far into the future. the president also offered no real entitlement reform and no plan to grow america's stagnant economy. president obama is truly budgeting from behind. what's interesting about this budget, though, is it's not just how late it was. it's that it -- it isn't just what he says about what that says about the lack of leadership from the white house. what's also very interesting is what this budget says about the coming train wreck of the president's own health...
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it helps reduce the deficit in a balanced thomas sustainable way. theok forward to answering members questions about the budget. first i would really like to cover a few highlights. the affordable care act signed into law in march 2010 is already benefiting millions of americans. make sure we continue to implement a law. by supporting the creation of new health insurance marketplaces, the budget will ensure that starting next january, americans in every state will be able to get quality insurance at an affordable price. our budg also address another issue that has been on all of our minds recently. mental health services and the ongoing epidemic of gun violence. i know mr. chairman that the senate later today will deal with legislation around keeping dangerous individuals from .etting their hands on a gun as a secretary of health and a mother and a new grandmother, i hope that the senate gives serious consideration to that ,ommon sense legislation bipartisan legislation that could make this tragedy seen every day on streets across america less than
it helps reduce the deficit in a balanced thomas sustainable way. theok forward to answering members questions about the budget. first i would really like to cover a few highlights. the affordable care act signed into law in march 2010 is already benefiting millions of americans. make sure we continue to implement a law. by supporting the creation of new health insurance marketplaces, the budget will ensure that starting next january, americans in every state will be able to get quality...
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but congress has the power to rreverse these self-inflicted wounds without adding one penny to the deficit. we've provided money, the money is there, we haven't spent it, we don't need to. we can use the savings from wrapping up two wars to avoid the full brunt of the sequester's arbitrary cuts. the congressional budget office said that would score; that money is available, it is money we could use. funding for the operation in ir a afgan has in alled overseas contin yeype account. since the worst of the seq cuts are creating an emergency situation, we should consider using thighs funds to offset their impact. these really are emergencies and we should do it. i am not proposing we use them to offset the entire sequester but congress has the power to avert the most painful sequester cuts using these mexico. 28 republicans in the senate and 174 republicans in the house would impose these sequester haphazard cuts. if those same republicans work with democrats, we could act to protect families and businesses and ensure our national defense and save millions of americans hours waiting at the ai
but congress has the power to rreverse these self-inflicted wounds without adding one penny to the deficit. we've provided money, the money is there, we haven't spent it, we don't need to. we can use the savings from wrapping up two wars to avoid the full brunt of the sequester's arbitrary cuts. the congressional budget office said that would score; that money is available, it is money we could use. funding for the operation in ir a afgan has in alled overseas contin yeype account. since the...
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you raise the age gradually 27862 thirds of the social security deficit. fix the remaining by testing the benefits. the president has occasionally sad he's for entitlement reform, but is not shown much leadership on this premise seems to benchmark per se, but any with him at least a 47 republican senators, we sat around a table that he and the vice president a year and half ago and i told them i think we should give people on both sides to essentially fix social security. .. into the federal employee benefits plan, federal health insurance plans so i said this is a democrat idea, this will be easy. i be easy. i will just go to john kerry and say let's use your idea and a friedel country but for senior citizens and let everybody of the federal employee health plan. i think the public would like it if they are still getting the same health plan is their congressman is and should be eminently sellable. similar to what paul ryan talks about give everybody the federal health employment plan. it saves 1 trillion over 10 years and actually according to our projec
you raise the age gradually 27862 thirds of the social security deficit. fix the remaining by testing the benefits. the president has occasionally sad he's for entitlement reform, but is not shown much leadership on this premise seems to benchmark per se, but any with him at least a 47 republican senators, we sat around a table that he and the vice president a year and half ago and i told them i think we should give people on both sides to essentially fix social security. .. into the federal...
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of time that accomplishes the same deficit reduction without hurting the economy. i've tried to offer that proposal for an up or down vote four times this year and have not even had the ability to get a vote on that, andrea. >> mitch mcconnell said today, this is all because of the poor planning of the administration. your take on it? >> well, you've got now republicans who just a few weeks ago were cheering on the idea of a sequester. and saying that we had to make these very deep, immediate cuts, on top by the way. of cuts that we already made two years ago. very deep cuts, but cuts that are manageable. but our republican colleagues said we got to keep the sequester in place, their budget calls for a doubling of the sequester cuts in the areas of the budget we're talking about. the faa, the fbi, national institutes of health. the best way that mitch mcconnell and republicans can help us deal with this, is to support our legislation that would replace the sequester in a balanced and targeted way. >> we all hear about budget cuts and maybe some jurisdictions are bl
of time that accomplishes the same deficit reduction without hurting the economy. i've tried to offer that proposal for an up or down vote four times this year and have not even had the ability to get a vote on that, andrea. >> mitch mcconnell said today, this is all because of the poor planning of the administration. your take on it? >> well, you've got now republicans who just a few weeks ago were cheering on the idea of a sequester. and saying that we had to make these very deep,...
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raise it to 70, and you fix two-thirds of the social security deficit. you can fix the remaining third by means testing the benefits. i thought that there'd be bipartisan support for that because the president has occasionally said he's for entitlement reform, but he, i think, has not shown much leadership on this. seems to be inching more towards it, but i had a meeting with him back when we used to have 47 republican senators, we sat down around a table like this with he and the vice president. this was probably a year and a half ago. and i told him precisely that, that i think we should be able to get people on pote sides of the equation -- on both sides of the equation just to, essentially, fix social security. medicare's a more difficult problem. it's $35-40 billion short, and these are problems that drive your deficit. everybody here knows this. two-thirds of the budget is entitlements. to we have another -- so we have another bill that fixes medicare. it's $35-40 trillion on the whole we do the same thing. we age the -- raise the age grawjally, we
raise it to 70, and you fix two-thirds of the social security deficit. you can fix the remaining third by means testing the benefits. i thought that there'd be bipartisan support for that because the president has occasionally said he's for entitlement reform, but he, i think, has not shown much leadership on this. seems to be inching more towards it, but i had a meeting with him back when we used to have 47 republican senators, we sat down around a table like this with he and the vice...
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who's cating econmic growth with good jobs, balancing, having aal aancedproach to deficit reduction and strengthen the middle class. as i said, last week our focus in the next little while will be on guns and budget, talked about budget. i will be joined by my colleague, congressman mike thompson of california. congressman thompson is a vietnam vet, a wounded vietnam vet. he is a gun owner, hunter. is the head of our task force on gun violence prevention, and he is a co-author of the bipartisan bill in the house with peter king. to put forth a manchin-toomey compromise that failed, so sadly, in the senate last night. we are so disappointed. our sorrow was expressed so appropriately by president obama last night that i invited mike to join us here to tell you where we go from here and to answer the question that people are saying what can we do to change this. mike, would you speak -- thank you for your leadership. >> thank you, leader pelosi. it's a pleasure and honor to join you, to talk about and to answer any questions that you guys may have on gun violence prevention. -manchin amend
who's cating econmic growth with good jobs, balancing, having aal aancedproach to deficit reduction and strengthen the middle class. as i said, last week our focus in the next little while will be on guns and budget, talked about budget. i will be joined by my colleague, congressman mike thompson of california. congressman thompson is a vietnam vet, a wounded vietnam vet. he is a gun owner, hunter. is the head of our task force on gun violence prevention, and he is a co-author of the bipartisan...
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those pictures were on the internet yesterday morning and they started going viral in deficit sites and difference infusion places pick those up, we'll take that information and then it ends up leaking back to the newspaper and comes out in one big circle. >> pictures start on the internet and law enforcement officials pass them internally and leak back into the media. the next thing you know a 17-year-old who runs track on high school is in a viral internet presence and law enforcement chatter and onto the cover of the "new york post." to be clear, the impossible poor judgment of the editors of the "new york post" was not the only reason this kid's picture was in the world associated with the bombing. what i saw on the front page of the post was not the first time i've seen this particular picture. the reason i saw it before was because i fell down a rabbit hole at 11:00 and browsing a page in which internet users had come together to do the vigilante work of sifting through the publicly available pictures of the marathon. it struck me sitting in the cold nightlight of my laptop we hav
those pictures were on the internet yesterday morning and they started going viral in deficit sites and difference infusion places pick those up, we'll take that information and then it ends up leaking back to the newspaper and comes out in one big circle. >> pictures start on the internet and law enforcement officials pass them internally and leak back into the media. the next thing you know a 17-year-old who runs track on high school is in a viral internet presence and law enforcement...
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it's also not directed to where we really need to do to reduce the deficit. once again sequestration applies to discretionary spending primarily, it provides a fourth round of cuts, we've already had cuts over the last three years and for the agencies that are affected, it's equivalent to about a 10% cut. you can't do that without seriously affecting the mission of the agencies. and that is just wrong. and that's why i have said from the beginning, let's replace sequestration. well, march 1 came, sequestration came, people woke up the next day and said what's the big deal? well, we're finding out what the big deal is all about. we just heard from the budget of the f.a.a., the air traffic controllers, that because of sequestration they have little option, 85% of their proiption praitional budget is in personnel and air traffic controllers are most of the personnel. so therefore they've announced this have to furlough 11 days during the remainder of this fiscal year, and that comes out to about one furlough day over each work period. it's as much as a 10% reduc
it's also not directed to where we really need to do to reduce the deficit. once again sequestration applies to discretionary spending primarily, it provides a fourth round of cuts, we've already had cuts over the last three years and for the agencies that are affected, it's equivalent to about a 10% cut. you can't do that without seriously affecting the mission of the agencies. and that is just wrong. and that's why i have said from the beginning, let's replace sequestration. well, march 1...
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deficit. for sequestration, furloughed federal workers, those workers are being found to be taking those benefits while they are on the job. so when it comes back to the u.s. government they found 13 of these employees lying to the federal government saying we are still out of a job so we still get the government benefits. that is why the story has major implications. we may see this in other parts of the country given co-worker furloughs happening with the federal government. tracy: this is a joke really because anyone can gain it and play it. this is why we are in debt. adam: lot of cheating going on but this could spread to other states. tracy: we are wondering what we are seeing indicates the treasury department and inspector general has launched what is being called operation double dip. not just irs workers from double dipping, getting laid off and still getting government benefits that this is on the heels of the recent report that showed federal workers boeing $3 billion in back taxes,
deficit. for sequestration, furloughed federal workers, those workers are being found to be taking those benefits while they are on the job. so when it comes back to the u.s. government they found 13 of these employees lying to the federal government saying we are still out of a job so we still get the government benefits. that is why the story has major implications. we may see this in other parts of the country given co-worker furloughs happening with the federal government. tracy: this is a...
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500,000 jobs to be created in the next two years, and we're talking about a state that running annual deficits of $20 billion. imagine what they can do with all this money. they won't have to go back on the welfare state or have the cuts they are having. >> interesting. joining us is jeff, the harvard professor who says fracking is good for the environment. welcome to the program. good to see you back again. >> thank you, good to be with you. >> 30 seconds on why fracking are good for the environment? >> there's qualifications, of course, but u.s. emissions of co2, carbon dioxide, are down 12% relative to the pam in 2007. this is unanticipated. we department sign the protocol. europe did. what's the reason for that? well, the fall from 2007 to 2009, you could say that's because of the recession, but it's still declining, and recession ended in june 2009. we've been growing since then, much more rapidly than europe, and yet, grown house gases fall, and europe's turned around after 2009. the reason is because of shale gas, which has been a natural gas recovered via what's called fracking, use of
500,000 jobs to be created in the next two years, and we're talking about a state that running annual deficits of $20 billion. imagine what they can do with all this money. they won't have to go back on the welfare state or have the cuts they are having. >> interesting. joining us is jeff, the harvard professor who says fracking is good for the environment. welcome to the program. good to see you back again. >> thank you, good to be with you. >> 30 seconds on why fracking are...
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obviously, every one of us wrestle with budgets and deficits, it kind of perks up -- gives us our attention. do you want to elaborate on that a little bit? >> i guess i would say a couple of things. first, arriving at that estimate is a matter of arithmetic, not particular ingenuity. economic growth comes from growth in people, and their productivity. and immigration controls both the size of the labor force and since immigrants tend to work more and participate at higher rates than the native-born, you get labor force growth. as you've mentioned, we often get small businesses and entrepreneurs, which raise the productivity of those workers, and there are benefits to faster overall economic growth in spreading innovation through the economy and thus raising productivity further. my estimates simply look at increases in immigration and follow the research, literature and rules of thumb for the impacts on gdp and on the budget. it's not magic. it's just arithmetic. i will say that it's important to recognize, i didn't tailor that estimate to 2013, '14, '15. this bill looks like it will take s
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gets away from that, we will work before the introduction to make sure it is deficit neutral. that is one of our bottom lines. thank you, everybody. >> senator chuck grassley is the ranking member. this is an hour and 40 minutes. >> the committee can come to order. for the delay. is a deal going on in massachusetts. i hope everybody can understand why the secretary of wonton amo will not be here. -- secretary will not be here. we will reschedule her testimony. she was saying how proud we are of the way that law enforcement .as responded i am distressed to hear an officer being killed. i see at least one person who runs marathons in the audience. my daughter and youngest son do. most marathons are a joyous occasion. the bipartisan proposal, we have established a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. it addresses the lengthy backlog in our immigration system. agricultural workers are in essential part of our communities and work so hard to provide our nations food supplies. it addresses the needs of our .aw enforcement community it impro
gets away from that, we will work before the introduction to make sure it is deficit neutral. that is one of our bottom lines. thank you, everybody. >> senator chuck grassley is the ranking member. this is an hour and 40 minutes. >> the committee can come to order. for the delay. is a deal going on in massachusetts. i hope everybody can understand why the secretary of wonton amo will not be here. -- secretary will not be here. we will reschedule her testimony. she was saying how...
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sorry, deficit-neutral. thank you, everybody. [applause] >> and it update on the manhunt for the suspect in the boston marathon bombings, overnight his brother was killed, also in mit officer was killed in a shootout. the younger brother is on the loose. and lockdown in the boston area. they were last seen in the water to an area just outside boston. and in his cover the short while ago, the police said the boston area continues on lockdown as they go house to house. they also plan -- a controlled explosion at a house in cambridge, massachusetts, some timeay. amtrak is suspending service between new york and boston. senior democrat associated press as on the house intelligence committeeay the to the st ng suspects had before they confronted police., there was a briefing earlier today. across our networks, we will keep you posted with the latest news and updates. we continue in about an hour in 10 minutes we will take you live to the state department. john kerry, whose brief this morning at the white house on the boston investigat
sorry, deficit-neutral. thank you, everybody. [applause] >> and it update on the manhunt for the suspect in the boston marathon bombings, overnight his brother was killed, also in mit officer was killed in a shootout. the younger brother is on the loose. and lockdown in the boston area. they were last seen in the water to an area just outside boston. and in his cover the short while ago, the police said the boston area continues on lockdown as they go house to house. they also plan -- a...
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he found the deficit ceiling will come down for trillions of dollars. his study found $2.5 trillion because when people become legalized, they will start paying taxes and they'll also have to pay back taxes, fines and fees through part of this immigration system. so that means they're not going to be coughing -- costing taxpayers money to go through this process and as many economists believe will raise the quality of life. host: the senate judiciary committee takes up the immigration bill this morning. c-span 1 will have that live. you'll also find that on our website. rebecca kaplan is a staff writer at in the national journal. it includes covering the campaign looking at the republican side of things. she worked on that and she also has covered the white house, as part of national journal's team and now she's looking at congress. one of the aspects of congress you're looking at is the house. here's a recent headline of her story. forget working groups, the house judiciary is moving immigration on its own. what's happening in the house? >> the chairma
he found the deficit ceiling will come down for trillions of dollars. his study found $2.5 trillion because when people become legalized, they will start paying taxes and they'll also have to pay back taxes, fines and fees through part of this immigration system. so that means they're not going to be coughing -- costing taxpayers money to go through this process and as many economists believe will raise the quality of life. host: the senate judiciary committee takes up the immigration bill this...
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it would over 10 years increased deficit by about $18 billion. it doesn't tell like a lot now but there are things to remember about the $18 billion. since that time, many of the things that were policy , there has been spending on that about half of what the cbo expected would be needed during those comparable policy objectives now maybe cheaper and generate less and the way of spending. is that thehing cbo did not use a dynamic scoring. you did not take into account the potential economic growth affects. the last piece of what is ,appened is since that score congress has passed and the president has assign the affordable care act. my reading of this legislation is is a bipartisan commitment that those who would become registered provisional immigrants who are here illegally, would not be eligible 10,benefits not for probably not for 15. so there will not be a budgetary impact. over the longer term, there is something congress should keep on and terms of the budgetary outlook. i would be happy to discuss with you the impact of the bill in that r
it would over 10 years increased deficit by about $18 billion. it doesn't tell like a lot now but there are things to remember about the $18 billion. since that time, many of the things that were policy , there has been spending on that about half of what the cbo expected would be needed during those comparable policy objectives now maybe cheaper and generate less and the way of spending. is that thehing cbo did not use a dynamic scoring. you did not take into account the potential economic...
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health care, taxes, deficit. we can talk about his leadership. the president can only run this country when he is dealing with leaders. we know these are not leaders now. they are cowards and selfishness and they have lack of leadership that that put us in this position now where they voted against something that 90% of the country supports, first of all. they voted against something that is right for our country and right for our society. and might make our society just a little bit safer. but they voted no. because they are cowards. and they put themselves in a category that, quite frankly, and i hate to see this, but put the themselves in a category that helps people like this, al qaeda terrorists. take a look. >> in the west, you've got a lot at your disposal. let's take america as an example. america is absolutely a wash with easily obtainable firearms. can you go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle, without a background check, and, most likely without having to show an identif
health care, taxes, deficit. we can talk about his leadership. the president can only run this country when he is dealing with leaders. we know these are not leaders now. they are cowards and selfishness and they have lack of leadership that that put us in this position now where they voted against something that 90% of the country supports, first of all. they voted against something that is right for our country and right for our society. and might make our society just a little bit safer. but...